Feminism and gender bias

26 Sep: Female domestic violence – Woman murders her 6-year-old daughter

Sydney woman, part-Aboriginal Kristi Abrahams pleaded guilty to murdering her daughter, Kiesha (pictured below), whose remains were found in bushland in Sydney’s west in early 2011, eight months after she was reported missing. Abrahams showed no emotion as she was sentenced to a non-parole period of 16 years for murder and interfering with a corpse. “Rot in hell!” someone in the public gallery yelled out as she was led away.   Kristi Abrahams The judge told the court the crime ranked in the mid-range of seriousness, because it was an impulsive and uncontrolled act of violence. He said Abrahams has shown remorse and is unlikely to reoffend, and that her intellectual disability and own experience of being abused as a child contributed to her crime. The judge said Abrahams was put in a foster home as a 10-year-old, after her mother died. But Justice Harrison also said Kiesha deserved to…

22 May: Domestic violence – sadistic female killer Katherine Knight

The media constantly trumpet the radical feminist line that males are violent killers, responsible for the majority of domestic viiolence.The story of sadistic killer Katherine Mary Knight may redress this imbalance somewhat. On 29 February 2000, in what must truly be Australia’s most gruesome case of domestic violence, mother of four, Katherine Mary Knight cold-bloodedly prepared for the violent  murder of her de facto husband, John Thomas Price, by sending the children away overnight. Then carefully selecting a sharpening steel and a long boning knife from her selection of butcher’s knives, Knight began honing the knife until it was razor sharp, in preparation for the grisly task ahead. During the day, John Price, reacting to death threats, had warned police and sought an Apprehended Violence Restraining Order against his wife, a person with a long history of domestic violence against previous partners. Her first marriage ended when first husband, David Kellet,  fled in…